Blizzard president Mike Morhaime has admitted the subscription-funded MMO market is a difficult one “to compete in,” but considering the value players get when paying a monthly fee, he feels free-to-play “doesn’t necessarily make for a better game.”

It has. There’s a proper ton of photos from the event, from the opening ceremony and Felicia Day signing autographs to the Foo Fighters closing off the show. See Morhaime and Metzen in action, plus more, below. Catch up on our event coverage from it here.

During a StarCraft II panel at BlizzCon, game director Dustin Browder, balance designer David Kim, and senior designer Josh Menke discussed some of the new units included in the expansion, as well as changes being implemented to existing units, and revealed which units would be retired from service.

Blizzard president Mike Morhaime has admitted the subscription-funded MMO market is a difficult one “to compete in,” but considering the value players get when paying a monthly fee, he feels free-to-play “doesn’t necessarily make for a better game.”

It has. There’s a proper ton of photos from the event, from the opening ceremony and Felicia Day signing autographs to the Foo Fighters closing off the show. See Morhaime and Metzen in action, plus more, below. Catch up on our event coverage from it here.

During a StarCraft II panel at BlizzCon, game director Dustin Browder, balance designer David Kim, and senior designer Josh Menke discussed some of the new units included in the expansion, as well as changes being implemented to existing units, and revealed which units would be retired from service.

BlizzCon hosted the first Global StarCraft League finals held outside of Korea last night at the Anaheim Convention Center in California, and the event pitted two Terran against one another for a $100,000 prize. In a five-game bout, underdog SlayerS_MMA bested IMMvp, four games to one.

Hi! I’m at BlizzCon! There’s a World of Warcraft preview panel happening right this very second. You want Pandas? Well, here’s 90 minutes of the little bastards and their furry fists of fury. Follow this space for all the news.

Blizzard has released a preliminary schedule for BlizzCon 2011, and it’s posted below. Scheduling may change before the actual event takes place, so keep that in mind as you look it over. You can also view a map of the floor plan through the link. BlizzCon takes place October 21-22 at the Anaheim Convention Center […]

Blizzard’s confirmed it won’t show its new game Titan next month at Blizzcon. It comes as it was predicted by one analyst yesterday that the next-gen MMO might get an airing in Anaheim, despite previous claims from Blizzard it won’t be shown until next year at least. Not to be though, according to Blizzard. 2012, […]

M2 Research analyst Billy Pidgeon has predicted that Blizzard will left the wraps off its next-gen MMO Titan at Blizzcon next month, despite previous claims from the company it wouldn’t be announced for another year at least.